Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies is a research topic within Cognitive Neuroscience. Science Explorer counts 51k research works in it since 1950. 9.8% of them reached the world's top 10% most cited for their field and year.

This cluster of papers explores the neural mechanisms underlying cognitive control, decision making, executive functions, and emotion regulation. It covers topics such as prefrontal cortex function, attentional networks, reward processing, and the development of cognitive control in the adolescent brain.

Cognitive Control
Neural Mechanisms
Decision Making
Executive Functions
Emotion Regulation
Prefrontal Cortex
Attentional Networks
Neuroimaging Studies
Adolescent Brain Development
Reward Processing

Research works: 51k
In the world top 10%: 5k
Top-10% rate: 9.8%
Growth, 2018-21 → 2022-25: -7%
Largest producer: United States

Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies

Which countries lead Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies research?

By volume, the United States and China publish the most (2.4k and 1.4k works in 2022-now).

By volume, 2022-now

1 United States 2.4k works
2 China 1.4k works
3 Germany 868 works
4 United Kingdom 592 works
5 Canada 365 works
6 Japan 349 works
7 Italy 340 works
8 France 299 works
9 Netherlands 284 works
10 Australia 239 works

How concentrated that is

The same countries as shares of everything the list above accounts for. A node where two countries do two thirds of the work and one spread evenly across twelve read alike as a ranking and not at all alike here.

United States2,420 · 33.8%China1,409 · 19.7%Germany868 · 12.1%United Kingdom592 · 8.3%6 others listed1,876 · 26.2%

Shares of the rows listed above, not of the whole node.

Which institutions lead Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies research?

By volume in 2022-now, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique publishes the most Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies research, followed by University of Toronto and New York University.

By volume, 2022-now

1 Centre National de la Recherche ScientifiqueFrance 102 works
2 University of TorontoCanada 69 works
3 New York UniversityUnited States 68 works
4 Harvard UniversityUnited States 65 works
5 University of OxfordUnited Kingdom 63 works
6 University College LondonUnited Kingdom 55 works
7 Chinese Academy of SciencesChina 53 works
8 Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands 47 works
9 Yale UniversityUnited States 47 works
10 Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands 46 works

Who are the leading researchers in Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies?

The most-cited researchers publishing on Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies include Daniel J. Kahneman, Richard M. Ryan and Ronald C. Kessler.

1 Daniel J. Kahneman United States 395k citations
2 Richard M. Ryan United States 395k citations
3 Ronald C. Kessler United States 360k citations
4 Mika Kivimäki United Kingdom 318k citations
5 John P. A. Ioannidis United States 317k citations
6 Karl John Friston United Kingdom 310k citations
7 Dan J. Stein South Africa 306k citations
8 Xiaogang Wang China 260k citations
9 Josep María Haro Spain 250k citations
10 Kaj Blennow Sweden 247k citations

Ranked by citations received across their whole record, among researchers with at least three works on this topic.

What are the most cited papers in Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies?

The most cited paper in Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies is "Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning" (Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Lawrence Silver et al., 2015), with 31,206 citations. Next come "The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis" (15,905) and "Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain" (13,238).

Most cited papers
#	Paper	Released	Citations
1	Human-level control through deep reinforcement learning Volodymyr Mnih, Koray Kavukcuoglu, David Lawrence Silver et al. · Nature	24 Feb 2015	31,206
2	The Unity and Diversity of Executive Functions and Their Contributions to Complex “Frontal Lobe” Tasks: A Latent Variable Analysis Akira Miyake, Naomi P. Friedman, Michael J. Emerson et al. · Cognitive Psychology	Aug 2000	15,905
3	Control of goal-directed and stimulus-driven attention in the brain Maurizio Corbetta, Gordon L. Shulman · Nature reviews. Neuroscience Review	Mar 2002	13,238
4	An Integrative Theory of Prefrontal Cortex Function Earl K. Miller, Jonathan D. Cohen · Annual Review of Neuroscience Review	Mar 2001	13,094
5	A feature-integration theory of attention Anne Treisman, Garry A. Gelade · Cognitive Psychology	1980	12,545

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Where is Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies research done?

The largest centres of Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies research in 2022-now are Beijing (China), London (United Kingdom), New York (United States) and Shanghai (China). Among places with at least 20 works in it, it is an unusually large share of all research in Trier, Bron and Magdeburg.

Largest cities, 2022-now

1 BeijingChina 274 works
2 LondonUnited Kingdom 154 works
3 New YorkUnited States 150 works
4 ShanghaiChina 137 works
5 ParisFrance 122 works
6 TokyoJapan 108 works
7 GuangzhouChina 101 works
8 TorontoCanada 99 works
9 AmsterdamNetherlands 87 works
10 BerlinGermany 76 works

Where it is the local speciality

TrierDE · 23.1 works24×
BronFR · 23.1 works23×
MagdeburgDE · 24.2 works9.3×
TübingenDE · 43.5 works9.3×
NijmegenNL · 52.0 works9.1×
WurzburgDE · 27.0 works8.2×

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Location quotient: how much more of its research is in Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies than the world average.

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Where is the best place to study Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies?

Among universities, judged by research, New York University, University College London and University of Oxford score highest, combining citation excellence, specialisation, size, growth and international reach. Research strength is one signal when choosing where to study; it does not measure teaching.

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One dot per university in the first ten of the table below, at the default weights. The upper left is the interesting corner: small places doing unusually strong work.

Citation excellenceshare of its work in the world top 10%, 2022-now and all time averaged

40%

Specialisationhow much of its work is in this field, counted up to 10× the world share

10%

Sizeits output in this field, on a log scale

30%

Growthoutput growth, counted from -20% to +20%

10%

Internationalshare of its work with a co-author abroad

10%

Each slider sets a weight; the share it gets of the score is beside it.

#	University	Score	Top 10%	Specialisation	Works	Growth
1	New York UniversityUnited States	76.3	14.2%	7.6×	68	-0.9%
2	University College LondonUnited Kingdom	76.0	19.7%	4.4×	54	-34.9%
3	University of OxfordUnited Kingdom	73.9	13.4%	5.7×	63	-11.5%
4	Yale UniversityUnited States	67.9	11.8%	5.5×	47	-1.0%
5	Stanford UniversityUnited States	67.9	19.0%	2.7×	31	-18.6%
6	University of CambridgeUnited Kingdom	66.7	13.7%	4.2×	39	-32.0%
7	Harvard UniversityUnited States	66.6	14.3%	2.6×	65	-30.0%
8	Radboud University NijmegenNetherlands	65.2	13.2%	10.1×	47	-24.2%
9	Massachusetts Institute of TechnologyUnited States	64.5	16.2%	3.5×	19	-4.5%
10	University of ChicagoUnited States	64.3	8.2%	6.6×	44	+47.8%
11	Vrije Universiteit AmsterdamNetherlands	62.6	9.1%	14.4×	46	+2.7%
12	Università Cattolica del Sacro CuoreItaly	62.5	17.4%	7.4×	25	+102.0%
13	Princeton UniversityUnited States	61.4	16.2%	4.9×	17	-25.7%
14	Columbia UniversityUnited States	61.3	11.3%	4.5×	38	+0.6%
15	Sichuan UniversityChina	61.2	22.0%	0.9×	15	+124.8%
16	University of California, Los AngelesUnited States	60.7	17.7%	4.1×	37	-28.0%
17	University of TorontoCanada	60.1	8.7%	4.4×	70	-28.0%
18	University of ZurichSwitzerland	59.7	13.3%	5.5×	30	-32.5%
19	Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität MünchenGermany	59.2	12.2%	6.0×	41	+0.1%
20	Washington University in St. LouisUnited States	58.6	9.8%	6.4×	36	-6.3%
21	University of AmsterdamNetherlands	56.7	16.0%	5.5×	26	-41.3%
22	University of California, BerkeleyUnited States	56.6	19.6%	3.2×	24	-21.4%
23	University of California San DiegoUnited States	56.2	10.1%	5.7×	44	-21.9%
24	Johns Hopkins UniversityUnited States	55.9	13.6%	2.8×	34	-12.2%
25	University of GenevaSwitzerland	55.2	8.4%	10.5×	34	-11.6%
26	Beijing Normal UniversityChina	55.0	7.7%	5.8×	36	+34.1%
27	The University of Texas at AustinUnited States	55.0	15.2%	3.2×	21	+16.0%
28	Technische Universität DresdenGermany	54.9	12.0%	9.1×	40	-16.5%
29	University of California, DavisUnited States	54.9	14.6%	4.2×	26	-31.1%
30	University of BolognaItaly	54.9	20.3%	2.5×	16	+10.4%
31	Shanghai University of SportChina	54.2	12.3%	44.4×	20	+170.8%
32	University of MinnesotaUnited States	53.9	15.2%	4.8×	28	-12.6%
33	University of BonnGermany	53.3	15.9%	4.5×	16	+24.1%
34	Universität HamburgGermany	53.2	15.7%	4.4×	25	-26.9%
35	University of PennsylvaniaUnited States	52.9	13.1%	3.2×	26	-19.9%
36	Emory UniversityUnited States	52.9	12.5%	2.6×	16	+23.0%
37	University of RochesterUnited States	52.9	13.6%	4.4×	16	+26.4%
38	Tilburg UniversityNetherlands	52.8	16.5%	7.6×	10	+17.4%
39	Zhejiang UniversityChina	52.5	10.0%	1.9×	40	+21.4%
40	Dartmouth CollegeUnited States	52.5	10.1%	8.3×	17	+28.5%
41	University of TübingenGermany	52.3	11.6%	10.1×	34	-29.4%
42	University of Hong KongChina	51.7	10.1%	2.7×	20	+52.8%
43	California Institute of TechnologyUnited States	50.8	17.4%	3.4×	10	-37.7%
44	University of Chieti-PescaraItaly	49.0	24.5%	7.9×	9	-9.0%
45	South China Normal UniversityChina	47.6	4.2%	11.8×	32	+80.9%
46	Sichuan Normal UniversityChina	46.4	9.7%	16.8×	16	+358.4%
47	University of HaifaIsrael	46.0	5.7%	13.2×	23	+5.0%
48	Universität TrierGermany	45.3	9.0%	35.2×	21	+8.5%
49	Temple UniversityUnited States	44.2	17.2%	4.3×	11	-25.6%
50	Henan Medical UniversityChina	42.9	10.8%	14.5×	10	+242.9%
51	Maastricht UniversityNetherlands	41.5	4.7%	6.7×	21	-6.2%
52	École Polytechnique Fédérale de LausanneSwitzerland	41.5	21.7%	2.7×	9	-38.7%
53	University of MacauChina	41.4	8.0%	4.2×	10	+17.6%
54	Karolinska InstitutetSweden	38.9	11.6%	2.3×	10	-38.3%
55	Hong Kong Polytechnic UniversityChina	36.8	8.8%	1.2×	8	+46.6%
56	Nanyang Technological UniversitySingapore	32.6	10.1%	1.6×	10	-7.9%
57	Chinese University of Hong KongChina	31.7	5.1%	1.8×	10	+9.3%
58	National University of SingaporeSingapore	18.0	4.3%	0.9×	8	-42.7%

Universities only. The score blends citation excellence (40%), size (30%), specialisation (10%), growth (10%), international reach (10%), 2022-now; growth compares 2018-21 with 2022-25 and counts up to +20%, since a jump from a small base is mostly noise.

Every institution in Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies, country by country

Is Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies research growing?

Output in 2022-2025 was 7% lower than in 2018-2021, peaking in 2021.

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Its share of all research

Growing output can still be a shrinking share: all of science grows. This is Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies as a percentage of every work published that year, 0.031% in 2024.

Fractional works of Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies over all fractional works that year. How the balance of science has shifted.

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Year by year.

Of each year's works in it, the share that reached the world's 10% most cited for their field and year. A field is the world for its own topics, so there is no other line to hold it against.

Which topics inside it are moving

Growth and decline on one axis around a shared zero. Two lists side by side hide the thing that matters: whether the growth dwarfs the decline, or the other way round.

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Which countries lead Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

How concentrated that is

Which institutions lead Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies research?

By volume, 2022-now

Who are the leading researchers in Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies?

What are the most cited papers in Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies?

Where is Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies research done?

Largest cities, 2022-now

Where it is the local speciality

Where is the best place to study Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies?

Is Neural and Behavioral Psychology Studies research growing?

Its share of all research

How much of it reaches the world top 10%

Which topics inside it are moving

Related research

Discussion